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February 25th, 2015

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Luuk_Prins
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Install latest version of rdesktop

For anyone interested, this is how I managed to install the latest version of rdesktop with all options
enabled:
First of all get the latest version from: http://www.rdesktop.org/#download
At the time of writing 1.8.3!
Open a terminal and get to the folder where you downloaded rdesktop.
Code:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libssl-dev libgssglue-dev libpcsclite-dev
tar zxvf rdesktop-1.8.3.tar.gz
cd rdesktop-1.8.3
./configure
make
sudo make install

I had to create a symlink from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin to make it system wide accessible, but I think
that was because I had already installed an old version through apt-get.
Apt-get will install rdesktop but an old version which has problems with the cursor in Windows 7 and
up. I was able to fix the cursor problem installing the latest version.
Just wanted to share hope I can help others this way!

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rnijenhu
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Re: Install latest version of rdesktop

Came across this post, had the same problem with win10, and made thankful use of it
Rdesktop
1.8.x is available in 15.04 but 15 has no LTS (yet) and breaking my current (14 LTS) is not an option for
me. So I did the install on a different location (/opt) and made a link in ~/bin with a slightly different
name, now I can choose between the old and new release each time without breaking the system.
Code:

cd /tmp
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libssl-dev libgssglue-dev lib
wget https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/releases/download/v1.8.3/rdesktop-1.8.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf rdesktop-1.8.3.tar.gz
cd rdesktop-1.8.3
./configure --prefix=/opt/rdesktop-1.8.3
make
sudo make install
mkdir ~/bin
cd ~/bin
ln -s /opt/rdesktop-1.8.3/bin/rdesktop rdesktop183

Last edited by rnijenhu; September 15th, 2015 at 10:07 AM.

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